Last week was a wild climate ride, from a landmark special report saying we basically have a decade to get our act together to Hurricane Michael decimating northwestFlorida. If ever there was a time for the media to finally ask politicians about their plans to address climate change, this was it. And for once, the…

Wednesday’s congressional hearing on social media and election security was relatively sedate and on-topic, but outside the chamber, two deeply dislikable people were getting heated in front of the camera. Confronted by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Florida Senator Marco Rubio tried to keep his cool while insisting…

Topps has been cranking out the political Garbage Pail Kids cards this year. And it’s Super Tuesday—the day when 12 states have primaries and caucuses—so they’ve got a new batch of limited edition treats.

The 2016 presidential race is one of the most contentious in recent history, and it’s also one of the most complicated. Our next president, regardless of which party they come from, will be responsible for making important decisions about a number of complex issues: net neutrality, the environment, surveillance, cyber…

Want to get to Mars? Well, NASA needs money to do it, and the president, along with Congress, mostly calls the shots. But NASA has been consistently underfunded over the last decade, and only saw its budget restored to healthier levels in 2016, when Congress carved out $19.3 billion for the agency. With missions to…

The FCC ruled in favor of a free and open Internet in 2015, but the battle against that stance continues. Industry groups are appealing the FCC decision, in the hopes that they can delay or prevent the government from reclassifying broadband as a utility. President Obama was a strong advocate for net neutrality, and…

The next commander-in-chief will be faced with tough questions about national surveillance and encryption. It’s likely that the current Apple vs. FBI encryption battle will consume the 2016 election and spill into the next presidency. And the next leader of the US will have to answer complicated, lingering questions…

Cyber attacks are an ever-increasing threat to the US. Just last year, a colossal hack believed to be conducted by China revealed personal information of more than 21.5 million people—and that was just one attack. To get into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the FBI had to pay at least $1 million to a hacker…

When President Obama signed a climate-change agreement with almost 200 other nations in Paris last year, it was a major triumph for clean energy advocates around the world. But the truth is that the next US president will largely bear the burden of reducing the nation’s carbon emissions. There’s no question that…

The 2016 presidential candidates talk a big game when it comes to technology policy, but do they even understand the technology they’re using every day? Here’s a look at the candidates’ greatest tech blunders:

America is a leader in biomedical research and medicine, and much of the fiscal fuel behind that research comes from the government funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Sure, scientific funding impacts our ability to understand myriad health conditions and figure…

Fights broke out today in New Hampshire between anti-Marco Rubio robots and pro-Rubio humans. It could not yet be confirmed whether the robot uprising has begun, but someone needs to tell that woman that you can’t strangle a robot. It only makes them stronger.

The phone is the political prop of the decade. Politicians hold them up during speeches to tell stories because it’s the ubiquitous little gadget that says, look, I’m just like you and I’m going to talk about Our Modern World™.

Which of the current presidential hopefuls have the strongest social media base? You might be surprised. Rand Paul blows Hilary Clinton away on Facebook, while Clinton creams Paul on Twitter. No one likes Jeb Bush.

As ambitious politicians announce their plans to run for president in 2016, you can be sure that cheeky hackers are gearing up for some good pranks. Who will they hit? Nobody can be sure, but a former developer for the Obama campaign just posted a side-by-side comparison of the security protections on the top four…

Senator Marco Rubio has had a change of conscience. The legislation abomination known as PIPA, birthed in part from Rubio's Floridian law-womb, just officially lost his support. Keep up the pressure, everyone.